Even if you don’t practice the Christian religion, the yule period is a frequent time for gift exchanges, from friends, family, and sometimes even from yourself to yourself.

World of Warcraft's annual Feast of Winter Veil holiday event began on December 16, 2023 and runs through January 2, 2024.

It’s surprising to me how little I’ve talked about Phantom Liberty on the site considering the sheer amount of discussion of Cyberpunk 2077 I’ve engaged in since late 2020.

It was pretty wild when the World of Warcraft developer team managed to plan out and execute the ambitious 2023 roadmap.

The 2024 World of Warcraft development roadmap was released yesterday for Retail and for Classic and I love how forthcoming the development team has gotten in the past year with these and other updates. That said, I want to talk about something more important: the term “roadmap.”

We all pretty much know what a roadmap is, but speaking as someone of an advanced age they used to be ubiquitous and necessary just for normal everyday driving in your neighborhood. But in this era of in-car navigation and GPS applications on your phones they’re kind of a relic from a bygone time. While not completely obsolete I’m certain that the number sold annually has plummeted dramatically in the past twenty years. Pretty soon a “roadmap” will only exist as a curiosity, and like the Save File icon the term will be a reference to something that’s no longer around.

Well enough of that, let me navigate out of this intro and answer some questions!

Join us this week as we explore the future of Gnomeregan.

I like being able to play games as much or as little as I want.

Reminiscent of last year's 2023 roadmap announcement, World of Warcraft Executive Producer Holly Longdale and the WoW team provided players a look at the year ahead with a 2024 roadmap giving us a look at all of the content coming in the new year.

Of course House Flipper 2 was a day one purchase for me. I’m not made of wood. I’m loving some of the updated features, particularly the one where you can basically copy and paste the styling of a particular piece of furniture or a finish, so I don’t have to re-select all the same options repeatedly. Weirdly, the only thing I’m having any kind of issues with is finding a house I can use easily for CAD purposes around my own house. I could construct something from scratch, but it’s a ton of work, and that’s time I could be using to build my real estate empire!

This is The Queue, the daily column where you ask us questions and we’ll answer while we scrub all these weird miscellaneous stains out of this dilapidated shack.

One of my favorite phrases is "ludonarrative dissonance" and I  often find myself musing on it.